Perinatal Nurse Specialist | West London NHS Trust

West London Mental Health Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Greater London is looking for a registered mental health nurse (RMN) to support pregnant women and mothers with infants under 24 months. This role offers full training and development in a stable, supportive environment. Responsibilities include managing a caseload, performing mental health assessments, and coordinating care with various healthcare staff. The position allows for hybrid working, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Stable working environment

Career development opportunities

Healthy work-life balance

Qualifications

• Seeking RMN with a passion for delivering care to parents and infants.
• No previous perinatal experience required as full training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Screen and assess mental health needs of pregnant women and infants.
• Manage a caseload of up to 25 women with moderate mental health needs.
• Liaise with primary care and other mental health services.

Skills

Empathy

Excellent communication skills

Initiative

Job description

Overview

Are you an RMN looking for an interesting and varied role where you can develop your career while providing a vital service? No previous perinatal experience is required as full training is provided. We can offer you full training, excellent support and the chance to be part of our well established, highly skilled and friendly team! You’ll be keen to learn, empathetic, possess excellent communication skills, and be as passionate as we are about delivering excellent care to the parents and infants we look after.

What we offer

• A stable, supportive and innovative working environment with the potential for future career development
• Significant training and development opportunities (we invest in our staff)
• Social hours – typically 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with no weekend working
• We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week – typically 3 days each week working from a hospital, community setting, or conducting home visits, and 2 days working from home
• Full or part time opportunities available (minimum 4 days per week)
• Secondment will be considered
• As a team our values of Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we look after each other and our patients
• Regular supportive line management and supervision
• A comprehensive CPD and reflective practice program
• This role is offered on a permanent basis, but we would also consider offering it on a secondment basis if this is something you would prefer

Role overview

In this role you’ll help us ensure women who are pregnant and booked for delivery, and/or have infants under 24 months, receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs, and that these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.

Using your initiative and knowledge you’ll liaise with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.

On a day to day basis you’ll effectively manage a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in children’s centres, joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals and care planning meetings.

Where we work

As a team we cover three boroughs, Ealing, Hounslow, H&F. The service has operational bases at St Bernard’s Hospital site (Ealing PMHS), Lakeside Mental Health Unit (Hounslow PMHS), and Hammersmith Hospital (H&F PMHS), and work in community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children’s centres).

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation. Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m. The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

Application and person specification

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached. The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Sep 2025